Fred BenensonCulture Program Associate Tuesday, June 24 2008fred@creativecommons.org

c

What is c?

We’re a 501c3 Non-profit Non-legal

We offer free legal and technology tools that allow creators to publish their works on more flexible terms

Terms that allow public sharing, reuse, and remix.

Why?

To resolve a tension.

Terms May Permit Less

The Tension in Digital Media

Technology has changed the way creative works are made, distributed, and used.The nature of digital computer implicates

the right to copy.Cheap easy software further implicates

the right to make derivative works.

What If?

You want to:

Share?Remix?Build Upon?Comment?Translate?

Then You Have To

ASK(and hire a lawyer)

What if?

You could give permission before to say

Enter …

Attribution

ShareAlike

NoDerivatives

NonCommercial

Three Different Formats

RDFa

Allows building metadata into XHTML and other XML documents with attributes.

<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">cc</a>

<a about="/bar.jpg" rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">cc</a>

ccREL

ccREL is described in ccREL: The Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (pdf), published March 3, 2008.

ccREL a specification describing how license information may be described using RDF and how license information may be attached to works.

XMP

XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) facilitates embedding metadata in files using a subset of RDF.

XMP supports embedding metadata in PDF and many image formats, though it is designed to support nearly any file type.

Liblicense

liblicense provides a straight-forward way for developers to build license-aware applications.

Reads license metadata If possible, writes license metadataGUI independent

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